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Google has taken its first
public steps to comply with a troubling ruling by the European Court of
Justice establishing a so-called "right to be forgotten" throughout the
European Union. The ruling, on May 13, requires that search companies consider
individuals' demands to remove Internet links that reference them, and to give
those requests priority over the public's broader information needs. The links
may be required to be erased even if the content is truthful, lawfully
published, and causes no prejudice to the individual.

Phoenix, April 8, 2014--The
Committee to Protect Journalists hails today's decision by
the European Court of Justice invalidating the European Union's mandatory data
retention directive.
The court found that the indiscriminate collection of metadata poses a
"particularly serious" and disproportional interference with the right to
privacy. Mass metadata surveillance is "likely to generate in the minds of the
persons concerned the feeling that their private lives are the subject of
constant surveillance," the court said.